I'm sure all of the enterprise and commercial users will be switching to steamOS.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Employees using a different OS at home en masse will cause pressure on companies to change. That will scare Microsoft.
Your lips to tech jesus' ears.
Idk about "terrified" but they should realize it will affect their income. If the anti-cheat companies start making products that work on it, I’d imagine they could take a disastrous hit.
Games with anti-cheat that doeo not work on Linux is basically the only thing stopping me from totally moving over.
That and the issues I have with controlling my system, CPU and GPU fans.
^ This guy cares about only fans!
Hawt.
I suppose you are taking about a laptop ? Some laptops are known to have strange fan behaviors with Linux. I suppose the manufacturers are using a windows driver to control the fans, as opposed to controlling the fans with the Embedded Controller, which would work the same regardless of the OS.
It's my PC, desktop.
I have an Asrock motherboard which does not seem to support Linux so none of its sensors show up in any thermal control app. Fan speeds and temperatures are just not there.
I can see everything else though, CPU temps, hard drive/NVME temps as well as memory temps.
I can see my GPU temps and fan speeds, but lately I cannot control the fan speed. I was using Lact to control it but I keep getting error messages in it and now it seems to take my changes but does nothing. Set fan speed to whatever I want and no change. Sits on 0 RPM.
It's an AMD GPU.
I set up some fan curves for my system fans and CPU fans in BIOS, but no idea if they even work in Linux or if they are being overwritten.
My old laptop omg... I had to manually add Linux as a boot option in BIOS because it just will not detect it as installed even when it is the only OS installed and taking up the whole drive. I tried a few distros and they all did the same thing, where these distros used to work.
Are you use cooler control?
I have, yes.
I use Cooler Control and LACT.
It shows me temperatures for my drives, CPU, GPU (and fans) and memory but no details on my motherboard.
So I cannot see any fan speeds or temperatures. Last time I looked this up I think it was quite common for Asrock boards to lack support.
Ah that sucks. I guess you could get a usb fan controller and control things that way. Collercontrol lists compatible devices in their git.
It might be worth it if I full plan to move over at some stage.
Just looking it up, Windows has shrunk to 12% of their revenue, and these are 2022 numbers.